Greetings, Mel Chua and I spoke in #olpc-meeting on Tuesday about using semantic + mediawiki (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) for test case/result mgmt. Mel was kind enough to bring me up to speed on the setup and extensions required to get semantic up and running. The laptop.org test crew have been using this setup to track testing against several releases now. The full meeting minutes are available at http://meeting.laptop.org/olpc-meeting.log.20090217_0911.html Discussion highlights include ... A high level description of the process is available at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Semantic_MediaWiki. The process for creating a new test case - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_new_test_cases The process for reporting test results - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reporting_test_results Several sample test plans include: * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.1 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0 Pros: * It's very flexible * Uses same wiki authentication * Forms extension makes contributing structured test results easier (rather than editing raw wiki) * Building semantic queries is *awesome* * "Show me all the test results for the Browse Activity" * "Show me all the Activities that passed test X for these 3 builds" * Built in table-sort provided by mediawiki Cons: * it's big * it's slow ("extensions are pretty heavy loaders") * SMW syntax has a learning curve (for queries, forms etc...) If I could do it over again ... * I might start with a separate wiki just for test results. That way the main wiki wouldn't be affected by the load of the extensions. * I would write a test workflow before starting to implement the system, so it'd be less haphazard. * I would *not* use subpages for test categories (e.g. Tests/Network/100XOs/DLinkRouter/WhileStandingOnOneFoot/WearingYellowShirts). Instead use categories * I would have and designate a few people to be Keepers of The Test System * I would definitely have a more formal rollout of the system. Thanks, James
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